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Ayy nice! Creative idea that's executed well, good puzzles, good length, neat graphics, really nice music. Only main issue to me is the controls, though more of a personal thing. To me using A and D to move and Space to jump just felt not great in a 2D game and made me mess up jumps more than I wanted. I would have gone for arrow keys to move, Z to jump, X to pick up lantern and C to turn light on and off. That said that's just me so might vary from person to person. Also, in that level where you have to jump across the waterfalls, the blocks looked like they were part of the background and i figured out the way forward entirely by accident. Otherwise, this is a winner in my book!

Shame you weren't able to participate in a full jam, this has potential. I weirdly enjoy the combat, there's something interesting about how you can get hit while attacking, meaning you have to position yourself in a way so that the enemy doesn't run into you while you're attacking, the large attack hitbox helping a lot with this. Also hitting stuff does feel good with that cool animation of the character.

 That said, it does suffer a bit from zero enemy variety, weird hit detection from enemies and bland level design but for something made in 4-5 hours that's more than understandable. I'd like to see it finished, but I assume you're more willing to move into other projects haha.

This is unironically great

Ooh this is cool! I like it